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May 1-3, 2001 - Nashville, Tennessee District, ITAC Meeting


Legend for AI Identifier:   May2001.TN.1 = month, year, location, & action item number for each ITAC meeting.

AI Identifier

Person(s) Assigned / Description of Action Item / Status of AI/Comment


May2001.TN.1 Nashville, TN District Meeting
5/1-3/2001


Person(s) Assigned:  Tom Wood

Description of Action Item:  Tom will send out an email regarding the status of the Bureau Microsoft operating system license procurement. Districts will be advised on the vendors to buy server and workstation licenses.

Status/Comments:   Completed -- reference Recommendation on the Purchase of Microsoft Operating System Licenses - email from Garry Neverdon, 6/25/2001


May2001.TN.2 Nashville, TN District Meeting
5/1-3/2001


Person(s) Assigned:  Mark Nilles

Description of Action Item:  Mark will follow up with the WRD technical offices regarding the data archival issues.

Status/Comments:  


May2001.TN.2 Nashville, TN District Meeting
5/1-3/2001


Person(s) Assigned:  Alan Lumb and Ruth Thornberg

Description of Action Item:  Alan - will work with Ruth Thornberg (NWIS Webmaster) to review and reorganize the NWIS Web pages for easier more user-friendly usage.

Status/Comments:  

Completed 2/1/02 -- after several reviews by the NWIS Staff, the NWIS User Groups, and ITAC members, the new reorganization of the NWIS pages were released the end of January 2002.


May2001.TN.3 Nashville, TN District Meeting
5/1-3/2001


Person(s) Assigned:  Steve Blanchard

Description of Action Item:  Steve will see to it that there is an analysis of LRGS usage. The study will focus on options for NATWEB to provide LRGS service coverage for the entire country.

Status/Comments:  


May2001.TN.4 Nashville, TN District Meeting
5/1-3/2001


Person(s) Assigned:  Alan Lumb

Description of Action Item:  Alan will investigate NWISWeb issues on the RT 404 error and provide an email with the guidance back to ITAC and to Districts.

Districts need guidance to handle the 404 web redirect error message when RT goes away.

Status/Comments:  


May2001.TN.5 Nashville, TN District Meeting
5/1-3/2001


Person(s) Assigned:  Alan Lumb

Description of Action Item:  Alan will see to it that there is an NWIS Internal page link to NWISWeb and send an email to Districts.

Status/Comments:  


May2001.TN.6 Nashville, TN District Meeting
5/1-3/2001


Person(s) Assigned:  Alan Lumb

Description of Action Item:  Alan will develop a District Checklist for switching from RT to NWISWeb to be included in the NWISWeb installation instructions.

Status/Comments:  


May2001.TN.7 Nashville, TN District Meeting
5/1-3/2001


Person(s) Assigned:  Steve Blanchard

Description of Action Item:  Steve will prepare one or two pages oriented to describe NATWEB options for mirroring District web pages and present a few common scenarios. This will be sent to Districts via email.

Status/Comments:  


May2001.TN.8 Nashville, TN District Meeting
5/1-3/2001


Person(s) Assigned:  Tom Wood

Description of Action Item:  Tom will send out an email that will remind WRD Personnel of the impact of using Real Player with respect to bandwidth.

Status/Comments:  Complete -- Steve sent forwarded the email to all WRD employees on May 30, 2001.


May2001.TN.9 Nashville, TN District Meeting
5/1-3/2001


Person(s) Assigned:  Tom Wood

Description of Action Item:  Tom Wood will give Steve Blanchard email of the ITAC polling results of OI Priorities and Funding

Status/Comments:  Tom Wood sent priority list to Steve Blanchard on 5/18/2001. Greg Shank, Steve Glodt, Greg Allord and Alan Lumb need to respond. See Tom's spreadsheet of polling results


May2001.TN.10 Nashville, TN District Meeting
5/1-3/2001


Person(s) Assigned:  Nelson Williams

Description of Action Item:  Nelson will send Lorna Schmid an ITAC recommendation regarding consistency of URL naming conventions for WRD internal web pages.

Status/Comments:  


May2001.TN.11 Nashville, TN District Meeting
5/1-3/2001


Person(s) Assigned:  Nelson Williams

Description of Action Item:  Regarding privacy statement web issues: Nelson will check that Lorna Schmid will send web-page footer guidance and recommendations to a wider distribution regarding the web-page footer.

Status/Comments:  Completed 5/7/2001
(reference Nelson's email)


May2001.TN.12 Nashville, TN District Meeting
5/1-3/2001


Person(s) Assigned:  Mike Slifer

Description of Action Item:  Mike will contact

    - Myron Brooks, District Chief, Wyoming
    - Doug Possun, Chief, BRD Mid-Continent Science Center.
    - Mile will be the contact for Barb Wainman, Chief, Communications
        and Outreach, Director's Office
    - Greg Allord will contact Karen Siderelis.
    - Tom Wood (invite Fed Oracle Rep. Karen Crosby/Julie Kyle)

Status/Comments:  5/31/01 update - Greg Allord spoke with Karen Siderelis and she has agreed to attend the September ITAC meeting. Karen's request is to join ITAC at least all day Wednesday, September 12 in Fort Collins.

5/31/01 update - Mike Sliffer has also contacted Myron Brooks and he is willing for us to meet there for the first day. His concern is the conference room would be crowded for us to meet in for a full day (not to mention district staff). One option would be for WY to travel to Ft. Collins. Mike has been trying to contact Doug Posson for some time and is currently awaiting on a call back. Mike will contact Barbara once I know that MESC will host us.


May2001.TN.13 Nashville, TN District Meeting
5/1-3/2001


Person(s) Assigned:  Subgroup (McEwen, Lumb, Allord, Williamson, Williams)

Description of Action Item:  Subgroup to form the 4 teams on NWIS Architecture, Network Architecture, Training and large GIS data sets, set meeting date (July or earlier) and location, and oversees delivery of all 4 reports to OI and ITAC by October.

Status/Comments:  


May2001.TN.14 Nashville, TN District Meeting
5/1-3/2001


Person(s) Assigned:  Steve Blanchard

Description of Action Item:  Steve will send NWIS status and plans communications to the WRD District personnel regularly, e.g. monthly.

Status/Comments:  


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